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| I don't think there is anything to be feared about patents in regard to the development of [[Consumerium]] itself, because Consumerium simply isn't patentable anywhere. | | I don't think there is anything to be feared about patents in regard to the development of [[Consumerium]] itself, because Consumerium simply isn't patentable anywhere. Naturally these news about [[GMO]]s being [[patent]]able here and there are quite disturbing as if GMO in itself weren't disturbing enough. I won't get all dystopic just now and I hope no-one else does either. |
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| :That's just not true. The scope of patents has expanded in recent years everywhere. [[Business process patent]]s, for instance, would clearly be able to cover the [[Consumerium Services]]. And, even if those processes are fully revealed to the [[public domain]] via say this [[R&D wiki]], there may be other ways, some more efficient, to deliver a [[Consumerium buying signal]]. These may be patentable implementations, and they may prevent some future [[improvement]] we want to pursue if we don't take steps to prevent it.
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| :Also, more general elements of a [[healthy signal infrastructure]] may be patentable, and, we may come up with specific [[hardware requirements]] that can only be met by producing new hardware that would be patentable for sure.
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| :It's also very hard to tell where a [[software patent]] is going to apply. [[Encryption]], compression, etc., all these things. Also see [[Talk:DMCA]] for a whole nother issue of copyright abuse.
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| Naturally these news about [[GMO]]s being [[patent]]able here and there are quite disturbing as if GMO in itself weren't disturbing enough. I won't get all dystopic just now and I hope no-one else does either. | |